Charles Meredith
Also Known As: Charles H. Meredith, Charles Howard Meredith
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Meredith (August 27, 1894 – November 28, 1964) was an American film and television actor. Meredith was born in Knoxville, Pennsylvania. He was a popular silent film leading man and played opposite such actresses as Blanche Sweet, Mary Miles Minter, Florence Vidor, and others in romantic drama and comedy films. In 1924, he left his film career for work on the stage. He returned to film in 1947 where he played a number of small character roles. Toward the end of his career, he turned to television as well, notably as Secretary Drake in the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) series. He also appeared in three episodes of The Lone Ranger, each time as a doctor. He died, aged 70 in 1964, in Los Angeles, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 27, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 28, 1964
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The Family Honor
Overview: Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through college in the hope that he will support the family after graduation. However, Dal harbors no such ambition and instead spends his time gambling and drinking in a saloon owned by the town's mayor, Curran. During a raid led by Curran's crusading son Merle, a detective is killed and Dal is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-15
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High Tor
Overview: High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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All My Sons
Overview: During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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The Sun Sets at Dawn
Overview: A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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The Big Trees
Overview: In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-05
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The Boy with Green Hair
Overview: Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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A Foreign Affair
Overview: In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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They Live by Night
Overview: An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Tokyo Joe
Overview: An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Overview: Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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The Lone Ranger
Overview: The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to mine silver on Spirit Mountain which is sacred to the Indians.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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Streets of San Francisco
Overview: A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Twelve Hours to Kill
Overview: After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-02
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Cattle Town
Overview: The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-06
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Seven Days in May
Overview: A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Manhunt in Space
Overview: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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For the Love of Mary
Overview: Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Overview: A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Hail the Woman
Overview: Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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The Other Half
Overview: Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-18
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The Foolish Matrons
Overview: Three women, each living in a separate social sphere, work out their destinies in New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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Ocean's Eleven
Overview: Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Dead Ringer
Overview: The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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The 13th Commandment
Overview: Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her fiancé Clay Wimborn admits that he has gone into debt to shower her with presents, Daphne Kip determines to become financially independent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-17
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Francis
Overview: The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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That Something
Overview: Drifter Edwin Drake, estranged from his family, has a prophetic vision and gets his life back on track. Eventually he meets Sarah Holmes, an acolyte of the power of positive thinking, in the boardinghouse where both reside. Sarah happens to befriend Edwin’s mother and after Mrs. Drake shows her a picture of Edwin Sarah arranges for them to be reunited bringing happiness to all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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Noose for a Gunman
Overview: Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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The Miracle of the Bells
Overview: The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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The Quick Gun
Overview: Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Crash of Moons
Overview: A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a feature for 16mm rental only. Season 1 episodes 21, 22, 23. Episode 21: Rocky saves a space station and his friends when they are trapped between gypsy moons. Episode 22: Cleolanthe tries to destroy one of the gypsy moons with a barrage of missiles. Episode 23: Rocky evacuates the gypsy moon Posetta and stops Cleolanthe's missile barrage.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-10
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The Beautiful Liar
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Overview: Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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The Sea Hornet
Overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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The Cave Girl
Overview: Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes of living, finds it difficult to find food in the winter wilderness and resorts to pilfering from the Bates's winter camp. Divvy, engaged to a girl he does not love, meets Margot on one of her raids and falls in love with her. Baptiste, a half-breed employed by the Bates family, is discharged for stealing and burns the camp, driving the family to refuge with Margot. Elsie, hoping to regain Divvy's affections, dresses in boyish clothes similar to Margot's. Joining forces with Baptiste, they capture Margot, and Baptiste takes her in a canoe downstream. Realizing her mistake, Elsie warns Divvy, who bests the half-breed and then rescues Margot from the falls. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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Forbidden Moon
Overview: Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the station is filled with deadly radiation brought by an evil ruler who is immune to the radiation, and plans to use it to take over the universe.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Overview: Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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Room for One More
Overview: Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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The Cradle
Overview: A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce and marry others (several times). The person who suffers most from their cavalier outlook on life is their cute little daughter Mary Jane Irving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-04
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Beyond
Overview: Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her promise. Avis follows her brother to New Zealand in hopes of protecting him from his own ways, but on the trip tragedy apparently strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants. James Stanhope is a misogynist who won't give her the time of day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Luck in Pawn
Overview: Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works hard, but she sells only one painting. She discovers that a renowned artist is spending the summer at a nearby resort, so she sends him her best work for a critique. A friend recommends that she see him in person, so Annabel pawns a piece of jewelry and heads for the resort. The artist informs her that she doesn't have enough talent to achieve much.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-19
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Bright Leaf
Overview: Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-16
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Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Overview: Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
Genres: Western Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Gypsy Moon
Overview: Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover that both are inhabited by civilizations at war with each other. Needless to say, Rocky and his crew do their utmost to bring about peace.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Overview: Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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Beyond the Moon
Overview: This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brain washed.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-05
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Menace from Outer Space
Overview: A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger".
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Overview: Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-29
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The Lucky Stiff
Overview: A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Along the Great Divide
Overview: US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-02
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Perfect Strangers
Overview: Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-11
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Caged
Overview: A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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Three Lives
Overview: A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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Fort Worth
Overview: Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-14
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Strangers on a Train
Overview: Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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The Ladder of Lies
Overview: To save her good friend, Peter Gordon, from marrying a gold digger named Dora, Edith Parrish introduces the girl to Ralph Brent, a male vamp, knowing that she will fall for Brent's flattery. Dora, however, begs Peter to advise Edith against associating with Brent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-11
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